Wearing Tikka/dot on forehead

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Question:

On weddings and parties, some Muslim get dressed and sometimes put
A colourful star/dot/tikka on the forehead as a fashion style and not religious. I have seen Sikh and Hindu women wear such things and Sindoor on their forehead.

Sindoor is traditionally applied at the beginning or completely along the parting-line of a woman’s hair (also called maang) or as a dot on the forehead. Sindoor is the mark of a married woman in Hinduism. Single women wear the dot in different colors (“bindi” in Hindi) but do not apply sindoor in their maang.

If a Muslim woman wears such things on forehead during weddings and parties with no intention of Kufr, does this make Them non Muslim.

Answer:

In Islam, we are instructed to shun the practices of the Kuffar completely, especially those that are symbolic to their religion. Nabi (sallalaahu ‘alayhi wa sallam) has stated that the one who imitates a nation is from amongst them.

The “tikka” is symbolic to the Hindu religion and has different usages. Some are as you have indicated. It is also used during puja and worn by priests and religious people of the Hindu faith.

Hence, for Muslim women to place the “tikka” on their foreheads is un-Islamic. The Fuqahaa have stated that if a person wears the hat that is symbolic to fire worshippers, then he is a disbeliever. However, in the queried situation these women will not be non-Muslims.

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